Tagline: Sex. Murder. Mystery. Welcome to the party. A petty thief (Robert Downey Jr.) posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl (Michelle Monaghan) and a detective (Val Kilmer) who’s been training him…
Ladies in Lavender (2005)
Two aging spinster sisters have their peaceable Cornwall existence disrupted in 1936 when they take a young Polish violinist into their care. After a particularly violent storm, Ursula and Janet Widington awake to find young man Andrea half-drowned and badly injured on the beach. They slowly discover that he is a Polish Jew with a…
Layer Cake (2005)
Based upon JJ Connelly’s London crime novel, “Layer Cake” is about a successful cocaine dealer (Daniel Craig) who has earned a respected place among England’s Mafia elite and plans an early retirement from the business. However, big boss Jimmy Price hands down a tough assignment: find Charlotte Ryder, the missing rich princess daughter of Jimmy’s…
The Legend of Zorro (2005)
The Legend of Zorro is set several years after the conclusion of the previous adventure. Alejandro (Antonio Banderas) and Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones) are married and have a 10-year-old son, Joaquin (Adrian Alonso). Though Alejandro continues to don the mask of Zorro to protect the poor and oppressed residents of the California territory from the greed…
The Libertine (2005)
Tagline: He didn’t resist temptation. He pursued it. ‘The Libertine’ follows the adventures of John Wilmot, the second Earl of Rochester, in London of the 17th century. He has a passionate romance with a young actress, Elizabeth Barry, and he writes a scurrilous play which lampoons the monarch who commissioned it, Charles II, leading to…
Lila Says (2005)
The story explores an Arabic 19 year old aspiring writer named Chimo who falls for Lila, the sexually forthright and stunning French girl who moves into the Parisian ghetto he grew up in. With her torrid glances and explicit fantasies, Lila engages Chimo in a game of sexual discovery that walks a fine line between…